4 New Smart Home Products

Smart Home Products Improve Safety, Convenience, and Resale Value

Smart home products are taking over the housing industry. Advances in technology have led people to create items that help you with nearly any task – including your plumbing, heating, and cooling systems. Newer advances allow you peace of mind as the smart home apps and devices will warn you of danger in the form of water leaks, or system breakdowns, or they can even help clean your air.

These smart home products are specifically designed to keep your home free from water damage, allergens, and help keep the perfect temperature all year round. Find out more about how these next level home management systems can make your life safer, more comfortable, and easier to manage.

There are several smart home products on the market that can integrate with your phone or Amazon’s Alexa. These products serve a range of purposes, from detecting water leaks to maintaining the perfect temperature in your home. The individual product can detect when something is wrong. It can also send you a text message or notification before any real damage occurs. This can potentially save you hundreds or even thousands of dollars in repairs or replacements. For example, when a leak is detected and you take care of it as soon as you get the notification, you can end up saving yourself hundreds or thousands of dollars.

Smart home products are a good investment. There are products that can detect water leaks and freezes within your pipes. Air purifiers and allergen detectors can help the air within your home become cleaner and healthier. Smart home thermostats can keep your home the perfect temperature all year round. Water heater shut off valves can shut off the water if a leak is detected to prevent flooding within your home.

Water Leak and Freeze Detectors

Are you looking for something that protects your home from water and flood damage, helping you save hundreds or thousands of dollars in repairs? A water leak and freeze detector can help alert you at the first sign of a leak. This detector will alert your Smartphone with a text message if a freeze or water leak is detected. The detector also connects to standard home Wi-Fi, so the device needs no separate base station or hub. It is used to help detect temperatures that can freeze your pipes or humidity that could potentially damage valuables. The sensors can log and record your temperature and humidity of the area that you are monitoring.

With many detectors, the battery can last up to three years. There is a water sensing cable included. This detects water with sensors on base of unit or expand coverage with an included water cable sensor. You can also set up the detector to notify a family member, friend, or neighbor when it sends an alert. This is beneficial because you know that someone can always be there if an emergency comes up if you are away on vacation.

Air Purifiers and Allergen Detectors

Another smart home product is air purifiers and allergen detectors. This advanced technology automatically purifies to remove allergens, gases, and pollutants from your home’s air. It automatically detects and removes indoor pollution. Air pollution is just not a problem outside. In fact, the average home can be up to five times more polluted than outside air. The purifiers and detectors are constantly monitoring and reacting to indoor air quality; they often then report to the app. Many of them often come with warranties. Some purifiers can struggle to trap as much, which releases potentially harmful ultrafine particles back into the room.

Smart Home Thermostats

A smart home thermostat is the right fit if you want a product that helps maintain the temperature within your home. It gets to work making sure that it provides warmth on a cold winter’s day; it also keeps your home cool on a hot summer’s day or night. Smart home thermostats ensure the perfect temperature throughout your home without constantly relying on your radiators. It leaves a comfortable temperature within every room of your home. The heating and cooling knows when it needs to turn on to start heating or cooling the room so that it reaches the right temperature at the right time.

If you need to change the temperature at any time in any room, you can adjust it easily from your smartphone or tablet. Your smart home knows exactly what the heating and cooling requirements are in your home; it knows if you are away on vacation or how many people are in your home. The intelligent temperature control helps you save money on energy costs.

You can control your home’s temperature with your smartphone or tablet.

Water Heater Shut Off Valve

Water heater shut off valves automatically shut off the water supply to your water heater. It leaves all your other household fixtures and appliances operational. They can detect leaks, sound an alarm, and automatically shut off the water supply to the water heater. Batteries or air conditioning can power the units. You can even buy valves that come with an automatic maintenance cycle every thirty days. Water heater shut off valves are easy to install and are reusable. Notifications can be sent to your smartphone to alert you of the leak. This is beneficial because it allows you to take care of the issue before a bigger issue arises. Ignoring the issue will only make it worse when you finally notice the damage.

Smart home products are becoming more common in today’s society. Because of the constant advances surrounding us, keeping up with all the new smart home products can be a little difficult and intimidating. Stay tuned within the next few weeks because Affordable Plumbing and Heat will continue to present informative news about specific plumbing, heating, and cooling smart home products that you can use within your own home or business. If you are having any problems with your plumbing or heating and cooling, do not hesitate to give us a call.

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